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She was a fiery lawyer from eastern Kentucky who charged coal companies with discrimination for their refusal to hire women. Her campaign was a success. By Adam Nossiter Betty Jean Hall, a fiery ...

Coal Employment Project Founder Betty Jean Hall, front right, applauds during the Coal Employment Project's annual conference in 1984, in Charleston, W.Va. Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal ...

After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, women are taking on jobs once dominated by men, like coal mining. Before the war, no women worked underground in mines. Now there are hundreds of female ...

Ukrainian women bolster coal mining workforce, aiding war-torn energy supply Our international correspondent Valerie Gauriat travelled to south-eastern Ukraine to meet the women who have recently ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Betty Jean Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal administrative judge who paved the way for women to enter the coal mining workforce, has died. She was 78. Hall died ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Betty Jean Hall, an Appalachian attorney and federal administrative judge who paved the way for women to enter the coal mining workforce, has died. She was 78. Hall died ...